How to Reverse a string in R

Question

I\'m trying to teach myself R and in doing some sample problems I came across the need to reverse a string.

Here\'s what I\'ve tried so far but the paste operation d

Answer 1

Here's a solution with gsub. Although I agree that it's easier with strsplit and paste (as pointed out in the other answers), it may be interesting to see that it works with regular expressions too:

test <- "greg"

n <- nchar(test) # the number of characters in the string

gsub(paste(rep("(.)", n), collapse = ""),
     paste("", seq(n, 1), sep = "\\", collapse = ""),
     test)

# [1] "gerg"